Low surface energy coatings or anti-wetting agents play an essential role in microelectronics, anti-fogging and anti-fouling applications, and even have promising medical applications. Currently, perfluoroalkyl substituted polymethacrylates (PFPMs) are widely in use, and the anti-wetting properties of these and related polymers are believed to arise from the segregation of CF groups to the surf...

High-Throughput Characterization of Surface Segregation in CuxPd1 x Alloys Deepika Priyadarshini, Petro Kondratyuk, Yoosuf N. Picard, Bryan D. Morreale, Andrew J. Gellman, and James B. Miller* National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carn...

– In atomic, small molecule or polymeric multicomponent materials, surface compositions naturally differ from the bulk because one component (or phase) will generally favor the surface region. Binary polymer blends represent a model system to investigate surface enrichment because segregation is enhanced by the small combinatorial entropy of mixing and amplified by chain connectivity (relative ...

Segregation phenomena of Ag–Cu–Au trimetallic clusters with icosahedral structure are investigated by using a Monte Carlo method based on the second-moment approximation of the tight-binding (TB-SMA) potentials. We predict that the Ag atoms segregate to the surface of the Ag–Cu–Au trimetallic icosahedral clusters. The Ag concentrations in the surface layer of the clusters are about 11–29 at.% h...

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We present a continuum approach to model segregation of size-bidisperse granular materials in unsteady bounded heap flow as prototype for modeling other time varying flows. In experiments, periodically modulated feed rate produces stratified like that which occurs due intermittent avalanching, except with greater layer-uniformity and higher average rates. Using an advection-diffusion-segregatio...

The mammalian intestine is colonized by trillions of bacteria that perform essential metabolic functions for their hosts. The mutualistic nature of this relationship depends on maintaining spatial segregation between these bacteria and the intestinal epithelial surface. This segregation is achieved in part by the presence of a dense mucus layer at the epithelial surface and by the production of...